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Reader Seeks Romance channel’s Romance Roundup shares lists of current and upcoming must-read romance books curated by hosts Liz Donatelli and romance author Libby Kay.
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Monday Jun 09, 2025
Monday Jun 09, 2025
Romance Roundup on Reader Seeks Romance channel
Romance Roundup hosts Liz Donatelli & Libby Kay (Buckeye Falls & Pinegrove FD series) kick off Pride Month with historical romance author Joanna Lowell. Joanna chats about her queer Regency historical romance, A Rare Find, and shares her LGBTQ romance book recs.
Joanna also talks about:
❤️her magical time in England teaching a college class on witches in literature
❤️ Viking gold
❤️ "ecstasy of influence"
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Friday Jun 13, 2025
Friday Jun 13, 2025
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Romance Roundup hosts Liz Donatelli & Libby Kay (Buckeye Falls & Pinegrove FD series) celebrate Pride Month with romance authors and married couple Karelia & Fay Stetz-Water. They chat about their sapphic contemporary romance (with recipes), Taste the Love.
Karelia & Fay also talk about:
❤️hammocks
❤️making "turSNICKen" as part of book research
❤️their harmonious working relationship
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Tuesday Jun 17, 2025
Tuesday Jun 17, 2025
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Romance Roundup hosts Liz Donatelli & Libby Kay (Buckeye Falls & Pinegrove FD series) celebrate Pride Month with with Jennifer Moffatt, author of gay rom-com Flirty Dancing, inspired by iconic 1987 movie Dirty Dancing.
jennifer also talks about:
❤️ watching Dirty Dancing at a young age
❤️ her obsession w/reality competition show So You Think You Can Dance
❤️ seeing Flirty Dancing shelved next to a book by this popular queer romance author
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Friday Jun 20, 2025
Friday Jun 20, 2025
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Romance Roundup hosts Liz Donatelli & Libby Kay (Buckeye Falls & Pinegrove FD series) share two spicy male/male romances that they recently read & LOVED!
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Sunday Jun 22, 2025
Sunday Jun 22, 2025
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Romance Roundup hosts Liz Donatelli & Libby Kay (Buckeye Falls & Pinegrove FD series) celebrate Pride Month with show VIP Logan Sage Adams. Logan discusses her m/m historical romance Resilience on Canvas (think: Grapes of Wrath BUT really gay) and shares LGBTQ romance book recs.
The Three L's chat about:
❤️ 1930s Dust Bowl as a romantic setting
❤️ writing characters based on old photographs
❤️ "Libby & Lizzy" 1920s carnival sisters
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Tuesday Jun 24, 2025
Tuesday Jun 24, 2025
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Romance Roundup hosts Liz Donatelli & Libby Kay (Buckeye Falls & Pinegrove FD series) celebrate Pride Month with Timothy Janovsky, author of charming age-gap gay romance Once Upon You & Me. Timothy chats about Once Upon You & Me and shares LGBTQ romance book recs!
The trio also chats about:
❤️ fairytale inspirations
❤️ "bedtime stories as foreplay" trope
❤️ the MerPeople community
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Wednesday Jun 25, 2025
Wednesday Jun 25, 2025
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Romance Roundup hosts Liz Donatelli & Libby Kay (Buckeye Falls & Pinegrove FD series) celebrate Pride Month with Camille Kellogg, author of fake dating sapphic romance The Next Chapter, inspired by 1999 rom-com Notting Hill. Camille chats about The Next Chapter and shares LGBTQ romance book recs!
In this episode:
❤️ Liz shares an unpopular opinion
❤️ meet-opportunity
❤️ Pride & Prejudice 2005 soundtrack
❤️ writing on the subway
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BONUS CONTENT
Watch ROMANCE ROUNDUP on READER SEEKS ROMANCE YouTube channel for bonus content, such as episode teasers, books and bookish giveaways, bonus book recs, and romance author guests.
About the Hosts
LIZ DONATELLI is founder of READER SEEKS ROMANCE YouTube channel on which she hosts interview and discussion shows READER SEEKS ROMANCE, FIRST DATE, UNCHAPERONED: HISTORICAL ROMANCE SALON, and ROMANCE RECAP. She also leads READER SEEKS ROMANCE BOOK CLUBS.
A native New Yorker and former Los Angeleno, Liz resides in the woods of Columbus, Ohio with her husband.
LIBBY KAY is the author of BUCKEYE FALLS small-town romance series published by Inkspell Publishing.
Libby lives in the city in the heart of the Midwest with her husband. When she’s not writing, Libby loves reading romance novels of any kind. Stories of people falling in love nourish her soul. Contemporary or Regency, sweet or hot, as long as there is a happily ever after—she’s in love!
When not surrounded by books, Libby can be found baking in her kitchen, binging true crime shows, or on the road with her husband, traveling as far as their bank account will allow.
Writing is a solitary job, and Libby loves to hear from readers. Reach out and review her stories anytime. She’d love to hear from you.